1/30/2024 0 Comments Hesperides robert herrick16mo, Gilt lettered and decorated spines. Copies of Herrick's Hesperides in contemporary binding are notoriously rare: of the ten first edition copies offered at auction since 1975, only one, the Westmorland-Drinkwater-Terry- Houghton copy, and this copy, the Abel Berland copy, was in a contemporary binding (Christies, 1979). Most of his large poetic output probably dates from this period of rural retirement. To the 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems he contributed the anonymous verses "His Mistris Shade." Two years after taking holy orders in 1627, Herrick was granted the post of Dean Prior, in Devonshire, which he initially found isolating and boring. During a residence in London, he became one of the group of poets and playwrites in Ben Johnson's circle, whom he lamented as "the rare arch-poet Johnson". Herrick, the son of Cheapside goldsmith, earned his B.A. An excellent unpressed copy of a book almost never found in its original binding. a relatively tall and entirely unwashed and unpressed copy in a contemporary English binding. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. Exhibited at the Grolier Club-"This powerful rime", no. Berland (with his booklabel) from the Seven gables Bookshop in New York on March 21, 1974. Bookplates of John Bowle and Canon Charles Herbert Mayo. Early owner's pen signature (Jackson Clare Court, Drury Lane) to front paste down. Text block shaved a little close at top margin, tiny worm hole to title and dedication leaf affecting just one letter, small piece torn from bottom margin of Bb2 & 3, faint traces of dampstaining to upper portion of preliminary leaves, some (erasable) pencil marginalia. Light wear to corners and joints, flap repair to upper spine with a little loss, small section of upper joint cracked. Contemporary English blind ruled sheep, smooth spine divided by double blind rules. Engraved frontispiece (inserted) by William Marshall depicting a bust of Herrick on a pedestal with an eight-line Latin inscription beneath (with the small rosebuds and foliage in the background bearing a minute amount of pale contemporary coloring), dedication to the Prince of Wales, errata leaf, and the section title page for His Noble Numbers. London: Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648. Heperides: or, the Works both Humane & Divine.
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